American tourist, 56, fatally shot in front of distraught partner after withdrawing money from ATM in the Philippines

A Boston man was mugged and fatally shot in front of his distraught partner while vacationing in the Philippines — on the same crime-ridden island where a young American YouTuber was abducted last year, authorities said.Ralph Manecke, 56, was gunned down by a helmet-wearing perp in the town of Trento on Wednesday night while he was withdrawing roughly $800 cash from an ATM, according to local cops.The suspect jumped out of an SUV just as Manecke and his partner, Jerald Ceasar Tornea, a Filipino native, had put the wads of money inside their bag, police said.The masked robber then yanked the bag from Tornea and fired a single gunshot into Manecke’s stomach before fleeing.“While we were withdrawing, an SUV drove up next to us and a man stepped out of it,” Tornea told cops in the aftermath, according to the police report.“He greeted us a good evening but I was taken aback when I saw he was pointing a gun at us.He warned my partner not to move.

I couldn’t do anything.My entire body felt numb,” he continued.

“I dropped to the ground, and the man grabbed the bag from me.Then I heard a gunshot.”Heartbreaking footage captured by horrified witnesses showed a sobbing Tornea cradling his partner’s lifeless body in the middle of the street before police arrived.Manecke was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.Authorities are still probing the fatal mugging.

The ordeal unfolded on the same southern Mindanao island where Elliot Onil Eastman, a 26-year-old from Vermont, was kidnapped at gunpoint last October.Eastman, a newlywed YouTuber, was ambushed from his in-laws’ home before being dragged off to a waiting motorboat.He still hasn’t been found.

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